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Show KENNECOTT USES LOCAL BELTING FOR SMELTER Nephi Although Kennecott Copper Corporation's Utah Copper Division smelter is almost 1 00 milt Division smelter is almost 1 00 miles from this central Utah town, a modernization mo-dernization project under way at the smelter is stimulating ' employment employ-ment at the Thermoid Division plant of the H. K. Porter Company. According to James Stephens, manager of the local Thermoid plant, over 2,200 man days of local labor amounting to a payroll of about $36,000 have been used if the manufacture of conveyor and transmission belting which have been installed in the materials handling hand-ling system of the Utah Copper Division Di-vision smelter. The material handling system now in the final stages of construction, construc-tion, has 8,442 feet of conveyor belts to carry copper concentrate and silica material to storage areas or directly to furnaces. v An efficient feature of the belt installation is the use of splices rather ra-ther than mechanioal fasteners to hold pieces of belting together. The splices, although somewhat more costly to install initially, eliminate spillage and lengthen the overall life of belting. The belting installed at the . smelter smel-ter is made of 5 ply cotton and nylon ny-lon fabric embedded in synthetic rubber top covers 3I6" thick and bottom cover I j I 6" thick. |